During the holiday season the VLC media player automatically switches it’s standard orange cone icon to one with a Santa cap on top of it. You can see this in the top-left and main play area of the player:It also shows up in the taskbar area:This has been around for a while but some of you haven’t seen it yet, so if you’re using the VLC...

The mighty VLC is the player of choice for many regardless of whether you use Windows, Mac or Linux since it runs on all three. Choosing different skins (which you may known as “themes”) however isn’t exactly a straightforward thing to do. However once you know where to go and how to apply a skin, it’s easy. See video below to see how...

Important note: This does work in Windows Vista and 7, but probably won’t work in XP being that OS sometimes has issues displaying video across multiple monitors. Recently I posted a video about to use Direct3D Desktop Mode for multi-monitor VLC video play. The problem however is that when you span video across multiple monitors, you’re going to see...

One of the lesser-known features of the VLC media player is the ability to use Direct3D Desktop Mode. What this does is easily allow you to play video as your wallpaper while still being able to use your computer normally. This isn’t something that’s productive at all; it’s just fun. Note that at times it’s not the most stable way to do...

This is a follow-up to this article; these instructions do stop VLC from building a font cache permanently. VLC is a great media player, but the problem is that if you run a registry cleaner like CCleaner, VLC’s font cache gets wiped and it must rebuild it. This can get very annoying real quick. Here’s how to get VLC to stop building a font...

VLC is the preferred media played of many. It’s free, it’s fast and it plays just about anything (even old-as-dirt RealAudio/RealVideo .RA, .RAM and .RM files!) One common annoyance with the software is when the software stops to build its font cache. You go to load a video and VLC indexes all your fonts and you’re forced to wait until...

Mac users who make use of VLC media player and are tired of the cone icon can easily give it a face lift with the MacRabbit VLC Makeover Kit. Setup is easy enough:Find your copy of VLC in Finder Right- or control-click it and select “Show Package Contents” Navigate to Contents > Resources Drag all the icons from the downloaded disk image to the...

Recently we decided to take some of our seldom watched DVD’s and put them into storage (i.e. in a box in the closet). So before doing this, I looked into ripping these to my computer so we could potentially watch them without having to dig them out the closet. While searching the internet for easy options to accomplish this, I came across this article...

A filename extension is a suffix to a filename. There’s the name of the file itself, then a period, then the extension. When you see Document.pdf, the ".pdf" is the extension. The filename extension is one of those things that’s a necessary evil in computing to differentiate one type of file from another. Some UNIX/Linux environments...